Spring Water Protection Improves Health

Living near safe drinking
water is not the same as drinking
safe water. Some have argued
that anything short of pumping
it directly to the kitchen won’t
have any health benefits. “Even
if the water is clean when you
get it from the spring, it can
become contaminated in storage
at home,” says Michael
Kremer, Gates Professor of
Developing Societies in the economics
department at Harvard
University. In the first randomized
evaluation of the health
effects of improving water sources
alone, without...

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